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Ameek Bhalla
Experience (Industry)
Cureus Inc.
Statistical Editor (Medical Science)
N/A
Present - 2020
- Critiqued the statistics and experimental design of more than 300 manuscripts for the journal Cureus as part of an international team
Cactus Communications Pvt. Ltd.
Language Editor (Molecular Biology)
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2020 - 2017
- Boosted the readability of 300 manuscripts from more than 10 developing countries, enhancing their acceptance by life science journals
Experience (Academia)
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
Senior Research Fellow (Computational Genomics)
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Present - 2017
- Designed, executed, and analyzed quantitative genetic experiments, containing 480,000 data points, to infer the heritability of metabolic traits
Graduate Research Fellow (Computational Genomics)
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2017 - 2015
- Implemented mixed models to handle nested data, increasing statistical power by 1000%
- Invented techniques for mass production and processing of biological replicates, resulting in the publication of two research articles
Research Project Manager (Diabetes Genetics)
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2015 - 2012
- Operationalized a government project (CSIR, India) by managing procurement, troubleshooting protocols, and training five new colleagues
- Evaluated 50 candidate genes for diabetes using 200 transgenic constructs in Drosophila
Indian Institute of Science
Research Assistant (Alzheimer Genetics)
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2012 - 2007
- Pioneered a low-cost technique for measuring long-term memory of classical conditioning in Drosophila
Education
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
PhD Candidate, Computational Biology/Genomics
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2021 - 2015
University of Delhi
Postgraduate Diploma, Biochemical Technology
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2007 - 2006
University of Delhi
BSc (Hons), Biomedical Sciences
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2006 - 2003
Peer-reviewed Publications
Paternal inheritance of diet induced metabolic traits correlates
with germline regulation of diet induced coding gene expression
Teltumbade M, Bhalla A, and Sharma A; Genomics, 112:567-573
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2020
Transgenerational inheritance of cold temperature response in Drosophila
Karunakar P, Bhalla A, Sharma A; FEBS Letters, 593:594-600
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2019